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SubjectRe: fsck is dead (was: Some very thought-provoking ...)
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:10:11PM -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> > I talked to someone a few weeks ago who described a system he just sold --
> > 5 minutes of down time costs this customer about $500,000. That means that
> > the 33 minute fsck costs about 3.3 million dollars. Do *you* want to tell
> > this person that fsck is tolerable?
> >
>
> Um, can you say, UPS, and "maintainence"? If proper amounts of both are
> given, the chances of an fsck are almost NONE, in my experience and that
> of *MY* clients. I don't know about anyone else...

You obviously don't have customers for which their systems are really
mission critical - I've seen people which after those 33mins just for
something avoidable like fsck would switch hardware/OS vendor. Whatever
that would cost. Take that verbose, whatever it costs.

Ralf

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